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40 Cards in this Set

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(v) to make impossible; keep from happening
Preclude
(v) to manipulate the truth in order to conceal it
Prevaricate
(n) a flatterer
Sycophant
(n) a destroyer of icons or tradition
Iconoclast
(adj) spacious; roomy
Commodious
(adj) secretive; covert, often because of an illicit purpose or reason
Clandestine
(n) enthusiasm; brisk and cheerful readiness
Alacrity
(n) a sort of righteous anger at being treated unfairly
Indignation
(n) proper behavior according to societal expectations
Decorum
(n) quality of being religious
Piety
(adj) stingy; tight fisted about money; frugal
Parsimonious
(adj) flashy; showy for the sake of getting attention
Ostentatious
(adj) childishly sulky or bad tempered
Petulant
(n) a mystery; something hard to understand
Enigma
(adj) fickle; given to sudden changes of mood
Capricious
(n) an inclination or natural tendency to behave in a particular way
Propensity
Dichotomy(n) a division or contrast between two things
Dichotomy
(adj) warlike; aggressive
Bellicose
(v) to fail to resist; to surrender to
Succumb
(adj) not talkative; using very few words
Laconic
(adj) not favorable; marked by ill omen
Inauspicious
(adj) marked by excessive sadness; overly mournful
Lugubrious
(n) overabundance; excess
Plethora
(adj) harmful; deadly
Virulent
(v) to destroy completely; annihilation
Extirpate
(adj) showing mercy when justice and punishment are deserved
Magnanimous
(n) an outcast; one despised and rejected
Pariah
(adj) friendly; very social
Gregarious
(adv) dangerously
Precariously
(v) to want what someone else has
Covet
(adj) of great importance
Paramount
(adj) overly proud; arrogant
Supercilious
(adj) occurring after death
Posthumous
(n) typically an older person marked by grumpiness
Curmudgeon
(adj) happening by chance (does not necessarily mean “fortunate”)
Fortuitous
(adj) dull; lacking color or flavor
Insipid
(adj) not open to debate; final
Peremptory
(adj) marked by conflicted feelings; uncertainty regarding decisions
Ambivalent
(adj) imagined or experienced secondhand through another person’s experience
Vicarious
(adj) talkative; very chatty
Garrulous